Jonathan Rigsby

A loaf of bread from Costco labeled "rustic Italian loaf"

"How was your vacation in Italy?"

It was great. I laid around at a villa in the countryside. It was a real...

YouTube video by Seth Staton Watkins Men Behind the Wire (Cover) and Show Announcement!

I love this version of it:

In a much younger life, I was hitting on a woman in a DC bar, and when she asked what I did (which is all anyone in DC cares about), I said I was an intern.

She literally laughed in my face and walked off.

DC was not the place for me.

We're getting relegated. This is abysmal. I'm in shock.

#COYS

Dan, I still don't know why you won't answer my question about what you were doing on the grassy knoll.

Enjoy it. It's a delight.

I'm anticipating it will rise ten cents per day all this week. I remember four dollar gas, and I'm not looking forward to that again. Who knows where it stops.

I've been tracking the price at the gas station near my classes. Up $0.20 already this week.

Him being able to tell the system to turn on the outside lights and close the shades and turn off his reading lamp at night is the perfect use case for these devices. It was assistive technology and perfect for him. It reduced the risk he could fall and be injured. I was so happy when he did it.

My brother and I are past trying to help. We accept with weary resignation that one of us will eventually inherit a router fit for an entire office building.

Fuck you, ChatGPT.

He buys it.

My brother and I talk to him and find out he's done this. We try to explain the actual issue. He won't listen.

"I asked ChatGPT, and it told me the answer."

Now he's installing this router in his house and struggling to set it up.

Only some of the light switches work.

He describes the problem to ChatGPT, and the stupid AI says the problem is his router lacking bandwidth (it isn't). It tells him to buy a new router.

He asks ChatGPT what router would solve the problem.

It recommends a $2000 Wi-fi 7 node router intended for use in industrial settings.

Now there's so many devices operating in his house that their signals are all interfering with each other. Many of them stop working. He doesn't understand what's going on, but he's essentially created his own signal jammer by having two dozen devices all using the same communication band.

The company that made the light switches announced they wouldn't support them any longer. After a certain date, the switches would no longer work. Dad would be stuck in the dark.

Cue my irate father purchasing and installing dozens of NEW smart light switches.

Except, whoops, new problem!

BOY DO I HAVE A STORY ABOUT THIS. STRAP IN, FOLKS.

A few years back, my retired father replaced all the light switches in his house with smart switches that he could activate by talking to Alexa. It was a useful accommodation for an elderly man who gets dizzy when he stands up.

That is, until...

Also, there's blue on the side of his foot. Stray brush stroke, I'm assuming.

The stripes are very well done!

I'm sure this Supreme Leader will be more conciliatory to the US after we... (checks notes)... murdered his father.

My takeaway from his post was to click his profile and see that he was celebrating being granted tenure.

I guess you don't worry about research quality if you can't be fired.

Garden Noem?

I think that's right. We read it in the Arabic, and it's so funny.

Argh, it's been so long that I don't remember the name, but there's a crusades era document about Franks around Jerusalem written by an Arab scholar. It details a Frank finding his wife in bed with another man. The other man explains that he was tired and wandered into their home and fell asleep.

Ron DeSantis spent $1.2m per day to open and operate ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ After spending taxpayers’ money, Florida governor will likely be left holding bill for $608m promised by Trump administration

Just a quick reminder that the Everglades concentration camp they call "Alligator Alcatraz" is still open. Many people think it was closed.

I shortened the description to fit the character limit, but yes, you're right. It was in a section on blood transfusion procedures that included instructions for type errors that were basically "stop the transfusion, call for help, prepare for CPR (they are probably dead)". All horrifying.

"I'm treating my cancer with an anti-parasite medication" should evoke discussions of whether a person is competent to select their own medical care, not articles in NPR.

There are no known effective treatments, and the death rate is 90%+. The only treatment they've tried is blasting people with gamma radiation to try to kill the donor blood. This was neither effective nor did it turn anyone into the Incredible Hulk.

Today in "random horrible medical things I learned in nursing school," I learned about transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease. It's a rare complication of blood transfusions to immune compromised people where the body tries to fight the donor blood, and the donor blood wins.

There are several Warhammer books that are actually shocking in how well they are written and how well developed the themes are.

I'll take those apricot ones off your hands if you aren't going to keep them. 👀

Life is suffering.